His other laps included a 4.625/209.82 (No. 5) on Friday, and 8.075/74.52
(No. 6) and 4.344/272.89 (No. 6) today with track temperatures exceeding
130 degrees.

He's pleased with the results. "Nice," he said. "It's a team concept here
at Don Schumacher Racing. We have (team manager) Lee (Beard) over here
working with (crew chiefs) Johnny (West) and John (Collins) and just
giving us a different perspective of the computer data. And, this might
be the hottest race track we've been on all year. But, you have to think
that for the next six races we're probably going to face very similar
conditions.

"You're going to have to have a solid hot-weather tune-up and be able to
run well enough on that night session Friday that you start from the top
half of the field.

"I feel good. We're top half, which is where we needed to be, we have
lane choice first round, and we had two solid runs. We should be able to
parlay that into a win tomorrow."